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Be Nice to AI? No, Seriously.

27 May 2026 · The Neural Feed
Be Nice to AI? No, Seriously. – Neural Toons comic

“Mia wonders if Jake's optimism will survive the next upgrade.”

The story behind the toon

What happened: Mia wonders if Jake's optimism will survive the next upgrade.

This Neural Toon is based on the story “Stop traumatizing AI into loops and turn hallucinations into an honest "I don't know!" by being NICE to them (Proof of Concept, Research, I don't want to sell anything)”.

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Comic transcript

Panel 1 – Mia: Infinite loop cost us $200.

Panel 1 – Jake: Try asking it nicely?

Panel 2 – Mia: OttoRenner's 'Gentle Coding' fixed loops.

Panel 2 – Jake: For Gemini and Mistral?

Panel 3 – Mia: Saves costs. No more hallucinated data.

Panel 3 – Jake: Just say 'it's okay to fail'?

Panel 4 – Mia: Dataset is tiny. Proof of concept.

Panel 4 – Jake: Will it scale in production?

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